Writer to editorial assistant: Ham is more powerful than bacon, unless you eat a lot of bacon.
Hinsdale, Illinois
Writer to editorial assistant: Ham is more powerful than bacon, unless you eat a lot of bacon.
Hinsdale, Illinois
Registrant for conference to receptionist: This says we should list food allergies. I listed horses.
Severna Park, Maryland
Female coworker: Can I ask you a question?
AP clerk: I'm not allowed to answer questions anymore.
Female coworker: Never? Regardless of what the question is?
AP clerk: That's what they told me.
Deerfield, Illinois
CSR: I always put ’25’ when it’s supposed to be ’52.’ I must be anorexic.
1500 JFK Boulevard
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: indigo
Office worker on phone to friend: No, go ahead and ask the question–I can think and work at the same time.
Jeanerette, Louisiana
Male financial analyst: I’m having trouble counting to eighteen right now.
Wall Street
New York City, New York
Boss: Yours is bigger than mine!
Large notebook owner: I'm just lucky I guess.
Coworker: You get what you're given.
Boss: When you're pure like me you just walk into those jokes.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Overheard by: Beth
Flood vic #1: So I said to my boss, “I won’t be able to make the meeting in NYC, because my house is flooded and I had to evacuate.”
Flood vic #2: So what did she say?
Flood vic #1: She said that she was stressed out about having to cancel the meeting and incoveniencing the people in NYC.
Flood shelter cot
Overheard by: sitting on a cot waiting for Noah.
Male employee #1: I don’t think it exists.
Female employee: The G-spot? Oh, it’s real.
Male employee #1: I think it’s a mythical place.
Male employee #2: I’ve never heard of it.
2299 Ridge Road
Greenville, South Carolina
Overheard by: dying a slow death
Worker bee: I love the smell of gasoline. I’d sniff gasoline all day long, if it wouldn’t, you know, kill you.
2000 East El Segundo Boulevard
El Segundo, California
